THE BANK MOUSE 405 



tion of the Old and New Worlds, and its presence in Kiushiu, 

 but absence from Newfoundland, Greenland, and Iceland, 

 suggest an Asiatic origin with dispersal to North America by 

 an old land connection across Bering Sea. 



THE BANK MOUSE.i 



EVOTOMYS GLARED LUS (Schreber). 

 EVOTOMYS GLAREOLUS BRITANNICUS^ (Miller). 



1774. Mus GLAREOLUS (species), J. C. D. von Schreber, Die Saugihtere, iv., 680, pL 



190 B ; described from Laaland Island, Denmark. 

 1831. Hypudacus (misprint for Hypud^us) hercynicus (species), E. Mehlis, 



Oken's his, viii., 876 ; described from the higher Harz Mountains, Germany 



(HypuD/EUS and Hypudeus occur also in the same article). 

 1834. HypuDjEUS GLAREOLUS (species), H. B. Melchior, Den danske Stats o^ Norges 



Pattedyr, 116; identifying il/aj^/ayi?<7/«j of Schreber. 



1832. Arvicola RIPARIA, William Yarrell, Proc. Zool. Soc. (London), 22nd May, 

 109, and Loudon's Mag, Nat, Hist., v., 1832, 599 ; described from Birchanger, 

 Essex, England; preoccupied hy Arvicola riparius, Ord, l'ii2^=Microtus pennsyl- 

 vanicus (Ord) of North America ; Jenyns. 



1837. Arvicola pratensis, Thomas Bell, History of British Quadrupeds, ed. i., 330 ; 

 Boyd Dawkins and Sanford, British Pleistocene Mammalia, 1866, xiv and xxxvi 

 (? part); Boyd Dawkins, "Distribution of the British Post-Glacial Mammals," 

 Q^Mrt, Joum. Geol. Soc, xxv., 1869, 194 and 196 (? part); MacGillivray ; Owen 

 (?part); Morris, Cat, Brit. Foss., ed. ii., 1854, 357 (? part); from F. Cuvier's 

 Hist Nat des Mammiferes, vii., Tab. Gen, et MM., 1842 (described and figured in 

 livr. 68, 1834) =£'. glareolus (Schreber). 



1870. Arvicola glareolus, W. A. Sanford, Quart Joum. Geol. 5^^., xxvi., i., 124 

 (? part) ; Blackmore and Alston, Proc. Zool. Soc. (London), i6th June 1874, 461 

 (?part) ; Alston, in Bell, ed. ii., 1874 ; Newton, Vertebrata of Forest Bed, 1882, 82, 

 pi. xiv., fig. I (? part) ; Lydekker, Cat. Foss. Mamm, Brit, Mus., i., 233, 1885 

 (? part) ; Flower and Lydekker (? part) ; Harting, Zoologist, 1887, 361, pi. v. 



1881. ? Arvicola (evotomys) glareola (part), E. T. Newton, Geol. Mag., June, 258. 



1890. MiCROTUS glareolus (part), A. Smith Woodward and C. D. Sherborn, Cat. 

 British Fossil Vertebrata, 365 ; Lydekker ; Aflalo. 



1898. EVOTOMYS GLAREOLUS, Oldfield Thomas, Zoologist, loi ; Johnston ; Miller, 

 Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist, 1909, 419 ; Pycraft, British Museum Guide to British 

 Vertebrates; Millais. 



1900. EvoTOMYS HERCYNICUS BRiTTANicus {sic), G. S. Miller, Proc. Wash. Acad. 

 Set., ii., 26th July, 103 ; described from Basingstoke, Hampshire. 



1903- EVOTOMYS GLAREOLUS BRITANNICUS, G. E. H. Barrett-Hamilton, Proc, Roy. 

 Irish Acad,, nth May, 317 ; Miller (Catalogue), 



1910. EvoTOMYS GLAREOLUS BRITANNICUS, E. L. Trouessart, Faune des Mammi- 

 fires cl Europe, 170. 



' Bank or Red Vole of authors. 



" First spelt brittanicus, but later corrected by the author to britannicus. 



